Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-31
BY A WOOD FIRE.
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fstsfs Correspondence of tho Dispatch.
WARN SrRrNcs. August 81, 1887.
Yesterday morning at 6 o'clock the
mercury went down here 10 So,
and to-day at III it registered
Gle. As. q consequence the back
log is very popular, and most
Of us spend the morning around wood
fires, INDUCING IL not in reveries in
something very near akin to them. The
mountains are covered with mist and
we are having drizzling rain. Yet
every one seems to be enjoying the day.
Even the "young fellows with legs, "as
Uncle Bob Richardson calls the guests
who came to try the baths for rheuma.
tism, look unusually bright. The fact
is that q day such as this conduces to
sociability even at so sociablo place
as the Warm. IL one is inclined to
NOPE and nurse his ills, real or imagi-
nary, he finds some one that can go
him "two or three BETTER" and soon
becomes convinced that he is not so
bad of ms he thought he was. | was
very much amused at G party" one of
whom / was which who assembled
in the sitting-room this morning. Each
man gave his neighbor prescrip-
ton, and the amount OF medical
knowledge evolved was so great
and OF such character-especially OF
such character-that were it crammed
into the head of q physician it would
make him bowling lunatc in less than
week. From prescribing to conso-
ling the transition was natural and easy,
and before the party broke up every
one had been satisfied that he was fat
tening at the rate of ten pounds week.
I am afraid that all that prevented
Notification was the presence of par
~ of ladies in the next room. The Sc
cret of the improvement in the party
not the party of ladies, our party-is
that no man had ever taken his own
prescription. This letter is getting
tangled, and l would explain par pa
roathcsis that the ladies do not need
any improvement.
ON THE MOUNTAIN.
"Start not, nor deem these words untrue"-
but / was out on the moutain before 6
o'clock yesterday morning, and saw the
sun rise over this beautiful LEY. 1t
was a glorious sight, and l shall never
be satisfied until some painter crises
TO the height of the artistic argument
and preserves these scenes in oil. Think
of village thousand feet below you
wrapped in sleep, and hazy cleaning
almost magically awakened into life
and bathed in prismatic colors, and
you have some faint conception of
the picture / witnessed. One mo-
ment death-like stiffness and semi
darkness the next all vitality
and radiance. What companion pieces
"Sunset Down the Gorge from Sunset
Cottage" and "Sunrise as Seen from
the Mountain " would make.
RAILROADS.
Ruskin think it is that inveighed
against railroads as instrumental in de-
stroying scenery. There is no doubt
that railroad would do great things
for the Warm-Springs Valley. Build a
line from Covington to this point and
the Healing would not have to beg
purchaser, the Hot would become a
great sanitarium, the Warm would have
to quadruple its capacity, and German
town would become big town. Speak
ing from utilitarian standpoint, rail
road ought to be built. Itwould pay the
builders and pay the landowners of the |
valley. But what would become of the |
characters we meet here? The plea
sure of taking a cigar on the porch of
Mr.. Bryan's store would be gone. DIR.
Hopkins would discard his ssddle-bags |
for a hand satchel and his silver-rim-
med spectscles for gold eyeglasses
and feel your pulse with tuning-fork.
The chicken-man would send in his
gatherings by express instead Of going
around the country and bringing them
in in a coop-wsgon, and the chickens
would look as if they had been dancing
the germans all night. The fun of being
mystified by the darkies who drive in
the sheep and cattle would be a
thing of the past. Ia short, the coun-
try storebeeper with his fund of recol-
lections, the country doctor, wood fires,
and everything else strictly country
would disappear. Let us have rail.
road here by all means, but let us en-
balm the scenery and the character of
the valley first. If "civilization is too
expensive progress is too iconoclastic
TOO SOON.
II will do very well for persons who
go to the mountain resorts for gayety
to HE home at the first cold snap but
those who need building up and are
really invalids make grave mistake in
so doing. The latter hardly become
"acclimated before the cool weather
strikes them, and, after all, the change
of mode Of life and bracing atmos-
phere are what half of them need.
During the middle OF the sum-
mer the days are almost as warm
at the average mountain resort as they
are in the cities, and persons who need
exercise do not take tin fact, do not
take as much exercise as they would
take at home, yet they eat great deal
more.
SECTIONS.
Judge Crump was compelled to leave
this morning for Dagger's, much to the
regret Of all his old friends and all his
new acquaintance here. Last evening,
however, a meeting of the section on
"The History of the Constitution and
"reminiscences was held on the noun
tain side, and q most entertaining
gathering it was. BY the way,
the Constitution suggests laws, and
in this connection / may say that
there hardly seems possibility OF get
ing q jury to try Mr.. George Warren.
His case illustrates the quirks OF the
law. Although under indictment, as
reported, he submitted an argument on
the coupon question (anti-coupon, OF
course) to Judge Clopton which has
rendered him exceedingly popular, has
disarmed the prosecuting attorney, and,
sthey do say" has disposed the Judge
TO postpone his trial until next sum
mer. II may be said by way OF ex-
rlanation that the connection between
coupons and snakes rests in the fact
that they are both pests, and that
Judge Clopton, who has been in close
consultation with Major Alfred Court
ney, Colonel Guy, Mr.. Julian, and
xt6er LAWYERS ia in eerious dOubt as to